Quotes on Character
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Hale Broun
Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no end to the sufficiency of character. It can afford to wait; it can do without what is called success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.
Henry Kissinger
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
Darrell Royal
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character - how he makes it and how he spends it.
James Moffatt
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
John Hammond
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Capitalism is the only system in the world founded on credit and character.
Hubert Eaton
As diamonds cut diamonds, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.
Cyrus Bartol
Our success in war and peace depends not on luck, or rhetoric, or the intervention of mythical gods; it depends on human character and modern scientific creations, and on respect for the meaning and methods of science.
Harlow Shapley
Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
Brian Tracy
Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
William James
Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
James Allen
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Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harboring of groveling thoughts.
James Allen
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Man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
James Allen
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together - humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
William Wordsworth
Strength of character means strong feelings, and strong command over them. This is where foresight, judgment, and will-power unite to form the most vital and important cement of a strong personality. To subordinate the lower nature to the higher, to be able to forego a present pleasure for a greater future good, is a distinguishing mark of the highest type of character. Self-denial is essential to manhood; for, to make one's life count, demands sacrifice.
Councillor
A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character - that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.
Roger Babson
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
Marion Burton
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
Socrates
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Froude
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham
Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.
Jim Rohn
Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can´t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing.
Jim Rohn
Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
Brian Tracy
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices.
Margaret Jensen
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
David Lloyd George
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.
Larry Winget
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.
Horace Greeley
The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.
Blaise Pascal
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen Covey
To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become something that you have never been before.
Les Brown
Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution after the enthusiasm with which the resolution was made has passed.
Brian Tracy
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thought.
James Allen
Your self-esteem is largely determined by the relationship between your self-image, how you are performing in your day-to-day activities, and your self-ideal, the way you would perform if you were the very best person you could be. The more that your day-to-day activities are consistent with the person you want to become, the higher is your self-esteem.
Brian Tracy
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
Character is not made in a crisis - it is only exhibited.
Robert Freeman
There's only one story in life for which you'll have every answer: the truth. If you live an exemplary life, and do what you're supposed to do, you walk down the block and you don't worry if someone is tapping you on the shoulder asking a question.
Bob Hurley
The inside out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen Covey
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James Michener
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through the experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness, and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.
Marcus Aurelius
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Every decision you make — every decision — is not a decision about what to do. It’s a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
Neale Walsch
The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
Henry David Thoreau
Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.
Charlie Munger
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